{"id":30600,"date":"2026-02-01T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30600"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:00:47","slug":"digdigdrill-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/games\/digdigdrill-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Art Mining Sim DigDigDrill Digging Down On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>DigDigDrill<\/strong> is a pixel art cozy mining sim developed by <strong>Toorai<\/strong> and published by <strong>Phoenix<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2916770\/DigDigDrill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steam<\/strong><\/a> in 2024. It\u2019s now being ported to <strong>Nintendo<\/strong> <strong>Switch<\/strong> following the feedback it has received since the original release, with over 30,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews according to the developer. <strong>DigDigDrill<\/strong> will be available on <strong>Switch<\/strong> from March 18th, 2026, with pre-orders beginning on February 18th, 2026, on the <strong>Nintendo eShop<\/strong>. The release will have full language support for English and Japanese from launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <strong>DigDigDrill<\/strong>, players will excavate treasure-filled earth in search of resources in a world free from enemies and time limits. They\u2019ll build a custom drill, mine away to harvest riches at any pace, and dig through subterranean layers in an attempt to reach the 999th underground floor. Other gameplay features include gathering as much raw material, ore, and hidden chests as possible, then returning to the surface and exchanging ore for upgrades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a press statement, <strong>Toorai<\/strong> and <strong>Phoenix<\/strong> said. \u201cWe aimed to make gameplay as meditative as it is immersive, and there\u2019s an element of getting lost underground that adds intrigue to <strong>DigDigDrill<\/strong>\u2019s cozy gameplay. <strong>Switch<\/strong> users will be able to take their digging sessions on the go very soon!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"[Nintendo Switch] &quot;DigDigDriill&quot; Tailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fBwlDZvJTbg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DigDigDrill is a pixel art cozy mining sim developed by Toorai and published by Phoenix for Steam in 2024. It\u2019s now being ported to Nintendo Switch following the feedback it has received since the original release, with over 30,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews according to the developer. DigDigDrill will be available on Switch from March 18th, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[199,44,200],"class_list":["post-30600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-digdigdrill","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-toorai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}